Pipe connection for railway-cars.



PATENTEDIOOT. 1, 1907.

H. F. POPE. PIPE CONNECTION FOR RAILWAY CARS.

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APPLICATION FILED NOV, 8 1906.

WlTNESSES PATENTED OCT. 1, 1907 H. F. POPE. PIPE CONNECTION FOR RAILWAY CARS.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 8, 1906.

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APPLIOATION FILED NOV. 8, 1908.

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H. F. POPE. PIPE CONNECTION FOR RAILWAY CARS APPLICATION FILED NOV. e, 1906.

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11mm. 1 POPE, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE NATIONAL MALLEABLE CASTI-NGS' COMPANY, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

PIPE CONNECTION FOR RA LWAY-clans.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY F. Porn, of Cleveland, (hiyahoga county, Ohio, have invented a new and useful Pipe (onnection ior Railway-Cars, of which the for which I have made application for Letters Patent,

out complication.

Serial No. 317,361, No. 317,362, and No, 329,439, and can be used with-the apparatus of any of said applications. It provides means by which air-brake coup lings, or the couplings of steam pipes, electric cables,

etc., can be applied readily and effectively to-cars" without undue length of flexible connections and with- Referring to Figs. 1, 2 and 3, 2 is a coupler, and 3 a coupler-pocket within which the coupler is mounted,

so as to afiord lateral wings 3, 3at the sides of the coupler adapted to engage corresponding parts on an adjacent car; or the wings may be madeintegral with the coupler-head. i

The pocket 3 is pivoted at 5 so with the'coupler. p p

6 is the air-pipe which extends to the end sill 4' of the asto swing radially car, where it isfitted with 'a' valve 7, and from this valve a piece of hose.8, or other flexible pipe, long enough to accommodate the swinging motion of the coupler, and provided withserew couplings 9 at the ends, extends .to the wing 3 .where it is screwed to a coupling 10 fixed to said wing. A hose-pipe 11 which couples with the hose-pipe ofthe adjacent car is attached to the coupling 10, and as it moves radially with the coupler-pocket it is always maintained at'the same relative position as the hose-of such car. This is true -even when a car having a iadiallyswingingcoupler is coupled with an ordinary car, because the swinging Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 3,1906. Serial meta 197.

Patented. Oct. 1, 1907.

coupler will be held by the other coupler and the hose of one car will therefore not be separated from the hose of the other.

Instead of.the flexible pipe 11, any suitable auto-, matic coupling device may be substituted, the requisite being that the hose coupling is carried radially with the coupler pocket or coupler wing, and thus maintained at all times in constant position relatively to the hose coupling of the adjacent car.

In the modification, shown inFigs. 4, 5 and 6, a pipe 8 is attached to the coupler-pocket and extends 1ongitudinally thereof from the train pipe 6 to which it is attached by a hose ortflexible connection 8, At its front end the pipe 8 has a valve 7 also carried by the coupler-pocket, and from this valve a hose-pipe 11, or a suitable automatic cc upling, extends to the coupling of aii adjacent car.

- ,Within the scope of my invention as defined'in' the claims, the parts may be modified, since what I claim 1. A coupler mounted to swing radially and having a laterally projecting stop-wing, and a pipe coupling at tached to the stop-wing and having a connection ,for an adjacent car and a yielding connection between the stopwing and the train pipe. v

2. A coupler mounted to swing' radially and having stop-wings constituted by .a separately formed pocket within which'the coupler is set, and a .pipe coupling attached to one of said wings and having a connection fonan adjacent car. p

3. A coupler mounted to swing radially and having a laterally projecting stop-wing, and a pipe coupling attached tosaid wing and having a connection for an adjacent car and a yielding connection extending to a coupling on the end structure of the car. I

4. A-couplsr having a radially swinging pocket within which the coupler is mounted, a pipe-coupling attached to the pocket and adapted to connect with an adjacent car, and a yielding connection betweenv the'swingin g pocket and the-train-pipe,

I I In testimony'whereof lhave "hereunto set my hand.

., HENRY F. POP EI Witnesses:

Haney E. 0am,-

TRACY B. WILLIAMS. 

